Shakespeare in the world : cross-cultural adaptation in Europe and colonial India, 1850-1900 / Suddhaseel Sen.
Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, opera...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
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| Summary: | Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, operatic, novelistic, and prose adaptations that are still read and performed, in order to argue that, crucial to the transmission and appeal of Shakespeare's plays were the adaptations they generated in a wide range of media. These adaptations, in turn, made the absorption of the plays into different "national" cultural traditions possible, contributing to the development of "nationalist cosmopolitanisms" in the receiving cultures. Sen challenges the customary reading of Shakespeare reception in terms of "hegemony" and "mimicry," showing instead important parallels in the practices of Shakespeare adaptation in Europe and colonial India. Shakespeare in the World strikes a fine balance between the Bard's iconicity and his colonial and post-colonial afterlives, and is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1000206068 9781003099789 1003099785 9781000206036 1000206033 9781000206005 1000206009 9781000206067 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2021) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Suddhaseel Sen is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay. He has a PhD in English (Collaborative Programme in South Asian Studies) from the University of Toronto and a second PhD in Musicology from Stanford University. Sen has been a Research Fellow for the Balzan Research Project, Towards a Global History of Music, directed by Reinhard Strohm. His publications include essays on Shakespeare adaptations; cross-cultural exchanges between Indian and British musicians; Richard Wagner and German Orientalism; nineteenth-century Bengali literature and culture; and films by Satyajit Ray and Vishal Bhardwaj, among others. |